Samuel Colt Vs. the Mass. Arms Company
Author: Massachusetts Arms Company
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Published: 1851
Total Pages: 418
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Author: Massachusetts Arms Company
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Published: 1851
Total Pages: 418
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Martin Rywell
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Published: 1953
Total Pages: 346
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This was an action brought by Samuel Colt, of Hartford, Conn., the inventor of the Repeating Firearms usually known as "Revolvers" or "six shooters", against the Massachusetts Arms company, located at Chicopee, Mass., for the infringement of his patent-right, by manufacturing arms in which were embodied several of the improvements already secured by letters-patent to him. The investigation ... brought out the whole history of this class of arms, and is of great interest in showing the time, labor and perseverance required in reducing suggestive ideas to a practical and useful result -- and the obstacles and impediments which had to be overcome -- before this truly American invention could be introduced to public notice."
Author: Massachusetts Arms Company
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Published: 2022-10-27
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781018185231
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Robert M. Patterson
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Published: 1851
Total Pages: 327
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Robert M. Patterson
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Published: 1851
Total Pages: 327
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Samuel Colt
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Published: 1851
Total Pages: 240
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Harold Schechter
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2024-04-02
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 1504094263
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn in-the-room account of John Colt’s scandalous nineteenth-century murder trial from “America’s principal chronicler of its greatest psychopathic killers” (Boston Review). In this masterful account, renowned true-crime historian Harold Schechter takes you into the life and crimes of convicted murderer John Caldwell Colt, drawing parallels between John’s rise to notoriety and his brother Samuel Colt’s rise to fame as the inventor of the legendary revolver. With a killing that made headlines around the nation, John Colt became a cultural touchstone whose shocking villainy inspired and provoked such writers as Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, and Herman Melville. Unlike his brother, John lived a nomadic existence, bouncing from one job to another. His one distinction, writing a reference accounting book, would play a part in his fall from grace. For in New York City, on September 17, 1841, John murdered printer Samuel Adams with a hatchet during a heated argument over proceeds from book sales. A media circus ensued, galvanizing the penny press, which printed lurid headlines and gruesome woodcut illustrations. The standing-room-only trial created unforgettable moments in legal history, including such dramatic evidence as Samuel Adams’s decomposed head. The verdict and its aftermath would reverberate throughout the country and beyond, giving John Colt lasting infamy. “[Schechter] leads us through Colt’s trial with such precision that you can smell the cigar smoke in the courtroom. . . . Killer Colt succeeds in making us care about this story now by showing why it mattered to so many people then.” —HistoryNet
Author: John Caldwell Colt
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Published: 1842
Total Pages: 16
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jim Rasenberger
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2021-05-18
Total Pages: 448
ISBN-13: 1501166395
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPatented in 1836, the Colt pistol with its revolving cylinder was the first practical firearm that could shoot more than one bullet without reloading. Its most immediate impact was on the expansionism of the American west, where white emigrants and US soldiers came to depend on it, and where Native Americans came to dread it. In making the revolver, Colt also changed American manufacturing, and revolutionized industry in the United States. Rasenberger brings the brazenly ambitious and profoundly innovative industrialist and leader Samuel Colt to vivid life. During an age of promise and progress, and also of slavery, corruption, and unbridled greed, Colt not only helped to create this America, he completely embodied it.-- adapted from info provided
Author: John Caldwell Colt
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Published: 1841
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